# Halloween Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 17, 2003, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-songs/208021 "2003-10-17T15:07:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-songs/208021/1 "2003-10-17T15:07:36Z")
I need Halloween Songs and the Artist who did them. Can you guys give me a list. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-songs/208021/2 "2003-10-17T15:17:12Z")
“Monster In My Pants” - Fred Schneider ---
**Author:** ![Maci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Maci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maci)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-songs/208021/3 "2003-10-17T15:40:59Z")
From Warren Zevon: ‘Excitable Boy’, ‘Werewolves of London’, and ‘Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner’. The Pogues: ‘Turkish Song of the Damned’ The Who: ‘Boris the Spider’ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-songs/208021/4 "2003-10-17T16:07:33Z")
Halloween-- The Misfits ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-songs/208021/5 "2003-10-17T16:18:41Z")
Anything from the Nightmare Before Christmas. Danny Elfman and Tim Burton. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-songs/208021/6 "2003-10-17T16:24:02Z")
Off the top of my head, here are some that might qualify: “Please Mr. Gravedigger” by David Bowie “Graveyard” by Trip Shakespeare “Wicked Annabella” by the Kinks “Shadow of Fear” by Madness and since FilmGeek mentioned Danny Elfman, there’s gotta be something by Oingo Boingo—maybe “Dead Man’s Party”? ---
**Author:** ![ASD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@ASD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASD)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-songs/208021/7 "2003-10-17T18:16:51Z")
On the cheezy Halloween cd I have: Monster Mash Addams Family Theme Ghostbusters Theme Jaws Theme Twilight Zone Theme Purple People Eater Love Potion #9 Werewolves of London Hitchcock Theme Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor (sorry, it doesn’t list artists) Other things that have been on my Halloween party playlists: Season of the Witch-Donovan Illuminati–Fatboy Slim Dead Man’s Party-Oingo Boingo Purple People Eater–Witch Doctor–The Big Bopper Witch Doctor–Ray Stevens ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-songs/208021/8 "2003-10-17T18:52:19Z")
‘Tubular Bells’ from ‘The Exorcist’ ---
**Author:** ![Profane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47774/32.png) [@Profane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Profane)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-songs/208021/9 "2003-10-17T19:24:10Z")
Every Day is Halloween, by Ministry Tubular Bells is by Mike Oldfirld, btw. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-songs/208021/10 "2003-10-17T19:25:06Z")
Mannheim Steamroller just released a [two-CD Halloween album](http://www.towerrecords.com/product.aspx?pfid=2880925). ---
**Author:** ![krisolov](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/krisolov/32/3724_2.png) [@krisolov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/krisolov)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-songs/208021/11 "2003-10-17T19:32:36Z")
Bela Lugosi’s Dead by Bauhaus Gregorian Chants I picked up a CD of Indian chants and music that’s pretty halloweeny too ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-songs/208021/12 "2003-10-17T19:36:19Z")
**Night on Bald Mountain** , an orchestral piece written by Modeste Petrovich Musorgsky. **Ghost of John** traditional song. Can be sung in rounds (like Row, Row Your Boat). Here is [sheet music and midi](http://www.musickit.com/resources/ghostofjohn.html) and here is a [recording](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000MSZ/qid=1066418241/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-6118556-0479812?v=glance&s=music). And for an [orchestral rendering](http://johnedmonds.net/91.html#) (click on “ghost of john”). And if you do a search on Amazon for halloween, you’ll get all sorts of hits and referrals (“people who bought this album also purchased…”). Creeps. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-songs/208021/13 "2003-10-17T19:46:57Z")
**Goblin Girl** by Frank Zappa **It’s Halloween** by the Shaggs **Spooky Boogie** by Gentle Giant ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-songs/208021/14 "2003-10-17T19:47:18Z")
AC/DC - Hell’s Bells, Highway to Hell Alice Cooper - I Love The Dead, Welcome to my Nightmare Annie Lennox - Love Song For a Vampire Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart Cheap Trick - Dream Police CCR - Bad Moon Risin’ David Bowie - Cat People Doors - People Are Strange Eagles - Witchy Woman ELO - Evil Woman Elton John - Funeral for a Friend, Midnight Creeper Gerard McMann - Cry Little Sister (Theme from The Lost Boys) Hooters - All You Zombies Marilyn Martin - Sorceror Metallica - Fade to Black Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells Ministry - Everyday is Halloween Oingo Boingo - Weird Science Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon Pink Floyd - One of These Days, Careful With That Axe Eugene Santana - Evil Ways Savatage - Ghost in the Ruins The Who - Boris the Spider Warren Zevon - Werewolves of London Look for scary movie themes, too - Halloween, Omen, Nightmare Before Christmas, Nightmare on Elm Street, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Montresor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/839c29/32.png) [@Montresor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montresor)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-songs/208021/15 "2003-10-17T19:48:40Z")
I’d have to say pretty much everything recorded by Bauhaus and the Cramps. Ditto for the Misfits up to Glenn Danzig’s departure. Of course, if your audience is children or people who don’t like atonal noise and rockabilly songs about necrophilia, maybe you’ll be better off sticking to Bobby “Boris” Pickett (“The Monster Mash”). The artists I’ve suggested, while all wonderful, may be a little much for folks who only do the whole horror thing in late October rather than year-round. And that particular Toccata and Fugue in D Minor is probably the famous one by Bach (JS). Camille Saint-Saens’ “Danse Macabre” is good, too. ---
**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-songs/208021/16 "2003-10-17T19:48:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by krisolov \* > \*\*Gregorian Chants > > I picked up a CD of Indian chants and music that’s pretty halloweeny too \*\* Woe and alas! What has Western Civilization devolved to when ancient religious songs (and some of them blatantly Christian) are lumped in with Halloweeny mood music? Now, I’ll grant you that certain chants, because of their melodic construction (in a minor chord, e.g.) or their topic matter (prayers for the dead) may fit the bill. But be wary of casting too wide a net. Peace. ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-songs/208021/17 "2003-10-17T19:56:06Z")
Well, one might argue that Halloween got its beginnings from religious ceremonies honoring the dead. Of course, one would do that in Great Debates, not in Cafe Society. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-songs/208021/18 "2003-10-17T20:28:14Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by moriah \* > **Ghost of John** traditional song. Can be sung in rounds (like Row, Row Your Boat). Here is [sheet music and midi](http://www.musickit.com/resources/ghostofjohn.html) and here is a [recording](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000000MSZ/qid=1066418241/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/103-6118556-0479812?v=glance&s=music). And for an [orchestral rendering](http://johnedmonds.net/91.html#) (click on “ghost of john”)._\* I learned a different set of (not copyrighted, I trust!) lyrics to that tune: “Have you seen the ghost of Tom? Eyes bulged out and nose too long With big ugly teeth and a shiny white chin Only one cheek to keep his tongue in” Not specifically Halloween-themed, but possibly relevant: [Ghost Riders in the Sky](http://ingeb.org/songs/anoldcow.html) [Ghosts of Cape Horn](http://www.corfid.com/gl/Albums/Songbook/Ghosts_Of_Cape_Horn.htm) [Like a Sunday in Salem](http://www.lyricsxp.com/lyrics/l/like_a_sunday_in_salem_the_amos_andy_song_gene_cot.html) ---
**Author:** ![krisolov](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/krisolov/32/3724_2.png) [@krisolov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/krisolov)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-songs/208021/19 "2003-10-17T20:30:04Z")
Hey, it’s All Hallows Eve, the day before All Saints Day so I think religious music are totally appropriate! ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2003, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-songs/208021/20 "2003-10-17T20:39:36Z")
All Soul’s Night - Loreena McKennitt Witches Hat - The Incredible String Band Moondance - Van Morrison I Scare Myself - Dan Hick and His Hot Licks Season of the Witch - Donovan Hypnotized - Fleetwood Mac Wolf Eyes - Paul Winter Consort [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/halloween-songs/208021.md?page=2)